I think I will stick to html... But I will check Abiword... Thank you for your reply...
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:48 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > > The thing is I hate document processors. I really do. I love > > vim. I really really do. > > Ditto :) > > > But "they" want a .doc file. With italics, bold, red for the > > code and green for page count. > > To get this from plain-text, you need _some_ sort of text markup > (he types, using underscores to mark up the sentence). There are > literally hundreds if not thousands of markup languages, and you > can even produce your own fairly easy (one of the main > contributing factors to the large numbers). Choices include RTF, > HTML, Markdown, DocBook, LaTeX...the list goes on and on. > > > I tried editing with vim and then opening with open office > > writer coloring, italizing, bolding and saving to .doc. But it > > is painful! To much mouse work... select the text go press the > > stupid B or I button or go press font color and then red or > > green. Painful. I want to use my keybord and only my keyboard. > > > As an aside, in most word-processors, you should be able to > select by holding down <shift> while using motion keys (arrows, > control+arrows, home, end, pgup/pgdn, etc). You can then use > control+B to get bold, control+I to get italics. Colors, not > usually as readily available. But that's 2/3 of a solution. :) > > > So here is what I thought. I will edit an html document, open > > it with oowriter and save to .doc. > > > > And here is the question: > > > > Is there an even easier way to do this using my vim? > > Choose some markup that's easy for you, and then post-process it > to tweak it to be valid HTML. I happen to think fairly natively > in basic HTML (wrote most of my college papers in HTML using a > text-editor and then printed from the library for free instead of > the $0.07/pg in the labs; darn javascript end-note library I > wrote from scratch :), so I just started there. HTML has good > control for styling and doing things like code-blocks, or > defining <div>/<span> elements for page-counts. > > However, your markup can be as simple as > > <code> > here's some code > </code> > @42@ > > which you can then post-process to HTML (bound in a > script/keystroke to save your sanity) > > :%s/@\(\d\+\)@/<span class='page'>\1<\/span>/g > > Vim has fairly strong support for HTML so I know that's pretty > easy. You don't mention what's getting italicized, bolded, or > made red, so I'm not sure if there's a better/worse way to mark > those up. > > If you're willing to put up with RTF markup, you can do this > natively in Vim and just open the resulting file directly in Word > or WordPad (most users see the idiot-icon for Word and don't care > that it's an RTF file instead of .DOC as long as it opens in > Word). I think OO.o does .rtf as well (when forced to use a > document processor, I tend to use AbiWord because it's a bit more > light-weight on my old machine here). > > Hope this gives you some ideas, > > -tim > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
